Two-piece wedding dress
Clothes for Women
Inventory number
2025.12.20.8ab.CW.SU.C1870.US
Description
A two-piece wedding dress in ivory wool trimmed with ivory silk satin pleated ruffles, consists of a bodice and a full-length skirt. The boned bodice has two knife pleats and two rows of pleated silk satin ruches, that surround a centre front fastening on eight buttons, long sleeves are voluminous in the elbow area and also adorned with pleats and ruches at the bottoms; the same trimming we could see on the bustle-skirt, which covered by over-bustle, attached to the bodice.
Materials
Wool
Silk satin
Origin
circa 1870
probably USA